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Gene Thompson goes to deciding what the company's next steps are, rather than implementing them.

An interactive dialogue with Founder and CEO of NorthOne on the fintech industry, the growing needs of challenger banks, and the future of SMB banking.

The diverse group of loans in the servicing rights portfolio offers a potentially attractive recapture opportunity and would be a sizable transaction for their era.

The digital lender’s valuation ballooned to $6 billion from $4 billion less than five months after closing a $200 million fundraise.

The financial-technology firm Plaid is close to a new round of funding at a valuation of about $13 billion, almost three months after scrapping its sale to Visa, according to people familiar with the matter.

Securitization is a sound delivery model for any lender when combined with adequate research and preparation and it offers unique benefits, too — especially in terms of greater control and efficiencies, writes Black Knight’s managing director of pipeline analytics, James Baublitz.

But UWM says the provision is designed to protect against a broker double-locking the loan and is used by other lenders.

Volumes were at a record high in the final quarter of 2020 but lenders didn’t make quite as much since gains on loan sales to the secondary market fell.

The company is still searching for someone to fill the roll on a full-time basis, but the $600,000 annual salary cap may limit the candidate pool.

The government-sponsored enterprise announced Wednesday it will change eligibility criteria for vacation homes and investor properties starting April 1 to fulfill a directive by former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.